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- From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386bsd] Install problem! HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.213828.22125@netcom.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 21:38:28 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Hello all again!
-
- Well I STILL have not been able to run 386bsd. So I have the
- info for someone that can help with my problem below! Besides bying
- another board/pc I would rather find the problem and get it fixed.
- I also want to know since bsd is still in the development stages (
- which every unix is never going to be complete, always soemthing
- new a great comes along) I would like to know if there are some
- good debugging programs or even keys to press to give me vital
- stats on what's going on! Thanks in advance!
- --------------
-
-
- BUG FINDER INFORMATION:
-
- NAME:Glen Collins
- EMAIL:root@genone.gentoo.com / glenc@netcom.com
-
- PC INFORMATION:
-
- 1. What is your PC system configuration? Please be
- specific, as success can vary with a difference in
- manufacture date or variation.
-
- 386/486/387: 80386 (Name: Hot 307 board)
- Advanced Micro Devices CPU DX/DXL 40 Megahertz
- Bios/Chipset AMI Bios (5/21/90)/ OPTI chipset
- ISA/EISA/SCSI: ISA
- RAM size: 4 Megs
- drive(s) type and size: Floppy 1: 1.2M
- Floppy 2: 1.44M
- Miniscribe 68M/ Rll'ed to 104M
- tape(s) type and size: Colorado 250M
- ethernet type: NONE
- graphics type: Trident SVGA (1 meg onboard)
- serial type: com1/com2 standard
- parallel type: lpt1 standard
- other: proaudio spectrum 16(for dos scsi drive
- Microsoft mouse
-
- Bugs:
-
- 1. What bugs have you found in this system? Please attach
- any pertinent printouts and system messages. Please
- also attach any bug fixes for others to use.
-
-
- The following is what happens to my system with I try to install 386BSD.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 64 KB CACHE MEMORY
- 386BSD Release 0.1 by William and Lynne Jolitz. [0.1.24 07/14/92 19:07]
- Copyright (c) 1989.1990,1991,1992 William F. Jolitz. All rights reserved.
- Based in part on work by the 386BSD User Community and the
- BSD Networking Software, Release 2 by UCB EECS Department.
- pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
- com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
- com1 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
- wd0 at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
- fd0 drives 0: 1.2M, 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 irq6 drg 2 on isa
- changing root device to fd0a
-
-
- warning: no swap space present (yet)
- 386BSD Distribution Installation Floppy (Tiny 386BSD) Release 0.1
-
- Please read the installation notes (type 'zmore INSTALL.NOTES')
- and registration information (type 'more REGISTRATION') before use.
- To install on hard disk drive, type 'install'.
-
-
- erase ^?, werase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C
- # install -debug
- bios finds: cyl 1024 heads 8 sectors 26
- Partitions:
- offset size type flag
- 26 20566 1 80
- 20592 61568 5 0
- 0 0 0 0
- 0 0 0 0
- 63 MB free. How many megabytes would you like for 386BSD? 63
- 386BSD partition:
- start 82160 size 129168 ssect 41 scyl 8b esect da ecyl f7 typ a5
- Should your 63 MB 386BSD partition be created on the disk drive? (y/n) y
- Do you want to install 386BSD in the disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y
- making root size 118560 offset 82160
- making swap size 10000 offset 200828
- label written at sector 82160
- High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage:
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This is where is system hangs. I cannot do a warm reboot, I either must press
- the reset button or turn the machine off.
-
- What I have done:
- Taken out all but the video card.
- Even used a mono card in place of the svga card.
- Reformatted the hard drive to 68 megs (mfm).
- Increased memory from 4 to 6 megs.
- Changed various bios/chipset settings.
- Cache/ no cache
- AT wait state
- Changed Bus speed from 8 Megahertz to 6 Megahertz
- Memory reads/write wait states
- Only the 1.2m floppy
- Only the 1.44M floppy
- Disablled the harddrive onboard bios, let the AMI bios
- tell BSD how many heads, cyl's and the such.
- FTP'd the fixed dist.fs from berkeley for the WD and even the
- ethernet controller fix just in case there was some
- kind of problem with compatibuility.
- Even tried to install from the fixit floppy, but the system seems
- to hang
- when I try to disklabel the drive.(With the wd fix from agate)
-
- And still the system hangs. I even purchased a new controller (mfm) and
- cables to see if there was a problem with the rll controller I was using.
- Still the same problem!
-
-
-
-
-
- ---------------------------------------------------
- The flollowing is the disklabel after the install program does it's
- thing and hangs!
-
-
- # disklabel -r wd0a
- /dev/rwd0a:
- type: st506
- disk:
- label:
- flags:
- bytes/sector: 512
- sectors/track: 26
- track/cylinder: 8
- cylinders: 1024
- rpm: 3600
- interleave: 1
- trackskew: 0
- cylinderskew: 0
- headswitch: 0 # miliseconds
- track-to-track seek: 0 # miliseconds
- drivedata: 0
-
-
- 3 partitions:
- # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
- a: 118560 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 964)
- b: 10000 200828 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 965*- 1013*)
- c: 129168 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 1015)
-
-
- ---------- end -------------
- The disk I have is a Micropolis 6085 68 Megs formatted. I have it
- rll'ed to 104 with a 10meg dos boot annd 30 meg D drive. The rest
- is avaliable for 386bsd (63megs I think) Any Ideas????
-
-
- Help!!!!!
-
- Glen Collins
- glenc@netcom.com
- root@genone.gentoo.com
- fred@seer.gentoo.com
-